William D. Lastrapes

Department of Economics
Professor and Bernard B. and Eugenia A. Ramsey Chair of Private Enterprise
- Office
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B451 Amos Hall620 S. Lumpkin St.Athens, GA, 30602
- Phone Numbers
- Work706-542-3569
- Email Address
- Worklast@uga.edu
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Education
PhD, Economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1986
BS, Finance, Louisiana State University, 1980
Prior Professional Positions
LSU, Economics, Assistant Professor, 1986 to 1990
Awards
Kamerschen-Hampton Outstanding Research Award, Terry College Department of Economics, 2010
Kamerschen-Hampton Outstanding Research Award, Terry College Department of Economics, 2000
Swift Undergraduate Teaching Award, Terry College Department of Economics, 1995
Areas of Expertise
- Monetary Economics
- Time Series Econometrics
- Macroeconomics
Research Interests
- Monetary Economics
- Time Series Econometrics
- Macroeconomics
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
- 2012. Home Equity Lending and Retail Spending: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Texas. American Economic Journal -- Macroeconomics, 4(4).
- December 2006. Inflation and the Distribution of Relative Prices: The Role of Productivity and Money Supply Shocks. Journal Of Money, Credit And Banking, (38):2159-98.
- Oct. 2004. Cross-Country Variation in the Liquidity Effect: The Role of Finanical Markets. The Economic Journal, (114):890-915.
- Nov. 1998. The Dynamic Effects of Money: Combining Short-run and Long-run Identifying Restrictions Using Bayesian Techniques. Review Of Economics And Statistics, (80):588-00.
- December 1997. The Check Tax: Fiscal Folly and the Great Monetary Contraction. Journal Of Economic History, (57):859-78.
- 1993.Forecasting Stock Return Variance: Toward an Understanding of Stochastic Implied Volatilities. Review Of Financial Studies, (6):293-326.
- 1992. Sources of Fluctuations in Real and Nominal Exchange Rates. Review Of Economics And Statistics, (74):530-39.
- April 1990.Persistence-in-Variance, Structural Change and the GARCH Model.Journal Of Business And Economic Statistics, (8):225-34.
- March 1990.Heteroskedasticity in Stock Return Data: Volume Versus GARCH Effects. Journal Of Finance, (45):221-29.
- February 1989. Exchange Rate Volatility and U.S. Monetary Policy: An ARCH Application. Journal Of Money, Credit And Banking, (21):66-77.
Editorial Appointments
Editor, Journal of Macroeconomics, 2014 - present
Associate Editor, Journal of Economics and Business, 2000 - present